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Dale Leyten (Fdale) (198.135.216.26)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 2:54 pm: | |
Hi to all. I am getting ready to remove plywood floor. I have bus floor level, but roof slopes front to rear. After many measurements, I am baffled. Was the bus built with a level floor and sloping roof, or vice versa? I wish to have it as level and plumb as possible before tearing it apart. Thanks. Dale Leyten |
William N DeGroot (Billdegroot) (171.72.5.133)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 2:58 pm: | |
Dale, I have an MC-9 and it's the floor that slopes. |
jim mci-9 (209.240.205.60)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 5:07 pm: | |
my mci-9 is 75" tall in the rear and 79" in the froont... floor slopes...measure from the bottom of the windows to the floor.. you'll see... |
jmaxwell (66.81.62.214)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 7:22 pm: | |
Yep, floor slopes. MCI bought 1 war surplus level after WWII and that explains it. Also, their engineers never could figure out how to build a kneeling system to drain the water out the front door after they hosed them out. The 6 worked fairly well though; the water sort of cascaded fwd. from floor level to floor level. |
Jayjay (64.12.96.105)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 8:25 pm: | |
Hey, thanks Jim, that was the best chuckle I've had in ages...JJ |
BrianMCI96A3 (69.34.195.226)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:54 am: | |
Uhhhh, well okay... The water drainage theory could be funny I suppose.
The actual reason the floors slope in many MCI products is the desire to give the maximum amount of headroom throughout the coach while raising the rear of the coach high enough to allow clearance for drivetrain components without having to have a step or hump inside the cabin.
Brian |
jmaxwell (66.81.36.4)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:36 pm: | |
Brian: No malicious intent, just one of the few running digs between me and my friends who all drive MCI's and Prevo's, the imported ones, while I drive USA made Grumman and Neoplan (only the names are imported). |
BrianMCI96A3 (65.40.117.116)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:53 pm: | |
No problem jmax, just representin' for my coach builder of choice!
Brian |
Dale Leyten (Fdale) (198.135.216.26)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 22, 2003 - 12:51 pm: | |
Thanks to all for your help. Best of the season. Dale |